Color management overview

Your computer makes a color image by mixing red, green, and blue light, which…get lighter as they combine.…Your printer makes a color image by mixing cyan, magenta, yellow, black, and…maybe some other colors of ink.…Ink gets darker as it's mixed together.…Now because these are two radically different ways of making color, maintaining…accurate color as we move from screen to print can be very complicated.…Further complicating things are the differences from individual device…to individual device.…Your monitor might be older than my monitor, for example.…

Humidity levels in the room where you're printing might change from day to day.…The characteristics of the paper you're printing on comes into play, and so on and so forth.…Capture NX supports some industry- standard color management technology that can…improve the chances that the image that you see on screen will better match what…you get out of your printer.…However, effective color management is dependant on a lot of things.…You have to have a lot of little pieces of software installed properly, and you…

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2/23/2012

In this course, photographer and teacher Ben Long shows how to use the Nikon Capture NX2 photo-editing software to perform nondestructive sharpening, white balancing, tonal and color corrections, and more. The course covers how to set preferences and define an efficient postproduction workflow, how to perform and automate a wide variety of image edits, how to work with RAW files, and how to get the best results when printing.